Climate change igniting deep peatland fires, study says

More on peat. A Canadian study says that climate change lengthens the burning season in Alaska, causing fires to burn longer and deeper. CO2, instead of being stored in the soil, is released into the air. In the 2000s, twice the CO2 was emitted than the average for the previous five decades. GR.

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